3. Jeff Bridges - Tron Legacy

You’d think that a movie that takes place in a virtual world would easily pull off a CG character, right? Well, yes and no. While Tron Legacy sports a very distinct visual style which is the movie’s singular accomplishment, it too succumbs to less than perfect digital de-aging. Jeff Bridges reprises his role as Kevin Flynn, the inventor of Tron, as well as his younger digital counterpart, CLU - the program director of the Grid with an eye on imposing his ideals back in the real world. Tron Legacy actually does a pretty good job of reversing the clock on Jeff Bridges and I’m more inclined to forgive the imperfections of the CG because the CLU character is a program, an acronym that stands for Codified Likeness Utility. But those eyes — those dead robot eyes — that CLU has constantly remind the viewer that what they’re seeing isn’t real, especially when contrasted with scenes of Bridges as Flynn without CG effects. Still, Tron did it better than most. At least for now.